The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-06-09
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An Interesting Lea from the BOY Life Q
the Nations Foremost Patriot.

An Interesting Lea from the Boy Life OF
the Nations Foremost Patriot.
The second of the Fairfax boys bore
the name of Thomas. This lad young
Washington never saw, but it was this
absent Thomas who exerted the strong
est influence over young George Wash
Ington's developing youth, and excited
a spirit of manliness and emulation
that none of his actual associates could
inspire. Before Washington became
intimate at BelvOir. young Thomas
Fairfax, then scarcely more than a
child, had been made midshipman in
the Kings Navee," and had sailed
away to foreign seas whence he never
returned.
Ills father inscribed upon the marble
quaint epitaph:
TO THE MEMORY OF
THOMAS FAIRFAX, ESQUIRE,
Who died fighting In his country's cause or
boad the Warwick Ship of War in an engage
ment with Monsieur Bourdenay. commander o
French squadron on the Indian Coast
the 26th OF June. 1916
and in the twenty first year of his age,
Beloved by his commander. Captain Carteret,
anu uiBuly favored py MS ITlSnO. COLun1OuOrS
Barnet, for his politeness OF manners. he was
a comedy parsonage, Of undoubted bravery
skilled in the theory Of the profession; excelled
by few as naval draughtsman, gave early prom
lSes by pregnant genius and diligent application
of consummate officer for the service Of his
country. But the Wisdom of Heaven is inscru-
table; human life is ever In the hands Of its
author; and while the good and brave are always
ready for death, resignation becomes their sur
wing friends. Convinced of this duty yet sub
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tablet was inscribed and dedicated by his sor-
rowing father.
May. Britain, al thy sons like him behave
May all be vtrtuous and like him brave
Thy fiercest foes undaunted he withstood,
And persisted fighting for his countrys good
Bold, ambitious, accustomed to see
no boy excel him, full of high senti-
ments of honor, loyalty and duty-who
can doubt what pulses thrilled the
heart of Washington, when this ex-
ample was brought face to face with
him every hour of his life? Who can
fail to see in these events the motive
which led him to seek, like-Fsscfax, a
midshipman's commissionp You all
know the story; how vessel waited in
the Potomac; how Washington's lug
gage was sent on board; how his mother,
agonized lest her son, too, should die
among strangers on far-off seas, inter-
gened; and how, at her entreaties, he
abandoned career thae seemed to him
full of promise and of glory-all these
are familiar themes. He laid his ambi-
ton at his mothers feet, and turned
his steps to the then quiet paths that
Law about his home. And soon those
paths extended into scenes of peril and
adventure that gave him fame even be-
fore he reached the age at which
Thomas Fairfax fell. But the influence
of the midshipman's example did not
stop there And the heights of Boston
and the field of Yorktown witnessed in
after years the display of the martial
spirit chat that was quickened into life
by the memory of Thomas Fairfax and
of his death in that unchronicled fight,
when the Virginia boy builded his life
into the foundations of the Empire Of
India WVlEtons r. Car'ae, IN st. M
cbokas.